Stories are not innocent. We should be careful about the stories we listen to. We should be sceptical and critical. We should always ask questions about them and seek to make a distinction in our minds between good and false stories.

we need to stop normalising credulity when people with power and money and fancy titles say extraordinary things

It’s not that we should be wary of stories themselves; rather, we should be wary of losing ourselves inside them. We need to acknowledge how stories can become tidal waves that overpower us and swallow us whole. We can become the characters that others assign to us, unwittingly performing a role that constrains our self-aware choices. Without